VisitScotland
Synchronising Beds24.com with VisitScotland
Contents
1 General
- Click here for general information on how the channel manager works.
- This tutorial explains how to set prices for channels.
2 Capabilities
- Beds24.com can show your availability at visitscotland.com and allow direct bookings on your own booking page
For details please click here
3 Limitations
Visit Scotland require your booking page to be PCI-DSS compliant. This means you cannot collect credit cards directly in Beds24, if you require a deposit payment you must do it using one of the PCI-DSS compliant payment gateways that Beds24 links to.
Visit Scotland also require a tracking script and newsletter link on your booking page, see below for instructions to install these.
4 Beds24
1) Enable the Channel manager >> Visit Scotland >> Inventory check boxes for the rooms you want to sell at Visit Scotland.
2) Visit Scotland require you to track booking confirmations by saving the following script at the menu SETTINGS ->BOOKING PAGE ->DEVELOPERS. Insert "Confirmation Page Insert in HTML <HEAD>"
<script type="text/javascript">var utag_data = { pms_site : "Beds24", vs_id : "[REFERRER2]", price : "[PRICENC]", currency: "GBP", product_name : "[PROPERTYNAME]", product_id : "[PROPERTYID]", arrival_date : "[FIRSTNIGHTYYYY-MM-DD]", nights : "[NUMNIGHT]", adults : "[NUMADULT]", children : "[NUMCHILD]", infants : "0", booking_type : "Bed & Breakfast"}</script><script type="text/javascript"> (function(a,b,c,d){ a='//tealium.hs.llnwd.net/o43/utag/visitscotland/pms/prod/utag.js'; b=document;c='script';d=b.createElement(c);d.src=a;d.type='text/java'+c;d.async=true; a=b.getElementsByTagName(c)[0];a.parentNode.insertBefore(d,a); })();</script>
3) Visit Scotland require that you include the following link to their newsletter on your booking confirmation page, save it at menu SETTINGS -> PROPERTIES -> CONFIRMATION MESSAGES
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><font face="Calibri, serif">We’d like to help you discover more about Scotland - to find great offers, ideas and further information sign up to VisitScotland’s e-newsletter today by clicking the following link: </font><a href="http://www.visitscotland.com/newsletter"><font face="Calibri, serif">http://www.visitscotland.com/newsletter</font></a></p>
5 Visit Scotland
Your id number is your Beds24 property Id number.
Log on to the VisitScotland Extranet [1] and follow VisitScotlands "Web Booking Integration with your VisitScotland Listing" instructions.
If you do not have a VisitScotland Extranet username and password you should contact the Tourism Services Team: [email protected].
